Found Deceased IL- Emily Truong, 21, Palatine, 26 May 2020

[oceanverde]

Emily Truong - View Obituary & Service Information

 

[mlhenn]

Emily Truong - View Obituary & Service Information

Oh no!
I didn’t see that coming!
I wonder what happened?

I noticed the date of death is May 23.

 

[oceanverde]

Oh no!
I didn’t see that coming!
I wonder what happened?

I noticed the date of death is May 23.

Missing Person Awareness Network reports she died that day due to a drug overdose. She was taken to the hospital but she had no ID on her so she was listed as unidentified and she was not entered in the National DB right away which is why it took so long to ID her.

*modnote*
Missing Person Awareness Network NFP

 

[mlhenn]

Missing Palatine woman's body identified at Cook County medical examiner's office

So incredibly sad...

Emily Truong was found dead May 23 on the far South Side of Chicago, according to the medical examiner's office. An autopsy on Truong -- then identified as a Jane Doe -- revealed she died from an accidental overdose of a mix of drugs, including fentanyl, according to medical examiner's spokeswoman Natalia Derevyanny.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

What a sad outcome.
Condolences to her family and friends.

 

[kelsie]

Aw man, fentanyl is no joke. A lot of people think they are buying oxycodone or percocet and it ends up being fentanyl (which is much more potent).

 

[Tee7077]

Aw man, fentanyl is no joke. A lot of people think they are buying oxycodone or percocet and it ends up being fentanyl (which is much more potent).

Or heroin or cocaine or Xanax.....

 

[ChatteringBirds]

@kelsie, Why? Do dealers purposely want "customers" (but the truth is they are victims) to have a more potent high, or is it because fentanyl is relatively inexpensive or easy to obtain so they just substitute it?

 

[evilwise]

@kelsie, Why? Do dealers purposely want "customers" (but the truth is they are victims) to have a more potent high, or is it because fentanyl is relatively inexpensive or easy to obtain so they just substitute it?

It's much cheaper and more potent. There can be all sorts of mistakes that can lead to overdose. Misidentification, improper cutting and even just people not realizing that unlike most drugs, while a double dose might make you feel super good a triple dose can very likely kill you. Our bodies ability to adapt is pretty impressive but fully synthetic drugs like fentanyl are simply a whole order of magnitude beyond and should really be considered deadly poison. I don't know why state governments have such trouble with obtaining legal injections.

 

[kelsie]

@kelsie, Why? Do dealers purposely want "customers" (but the truth is they are victims) to have a more potent high, or is it because fentanyl is relatively inexpensive or easy to obtain so they just substitute it?

Why Are Dealers Cutting Fentanyl into Recreational Drugs?
Here is a great article from a few years ago.

Fincham compared the lack of consistency to making chocolate chip cookies—you can't guarantee that each cookie is going to have a certain number of chips.

"If you are the user who is getting a counterfeit pill that is being mixed in somebody's basement in a warehouse with no controls whatsoever, you could be getting the one that's getting 24 chocolate chips, and therefore it kills you," he said. "You're playing Russian roulette with your life."

Another good article: 'Crisis': Surge in cocaine mixed with fentanyl has communities and law enforcement on edge

If you do not have an opioid tolerance and you ingest even a small amount of fentanyl, you risk overdose and death. It's a synthetic opioid that can be 100 times stronger than morphine.

I have been on fentanyl when I was in the hospital a few times and I was scared of taking it even then because of all this news I've seen about it. I am a young person with terrible chronic pain/chronic illness and I know some people who have fentanyl patches which are prescribed and closely monitored. But when it comes to purchasing these drugs off the street, you never really know what you're getting, and it could easily lead to your death

 

[Karmasabtch40]

How did she text her boyfriend on May 27 if she was found dead on May 23

 

[Karmasabtch40]

Police learned that she last texted her boyfriend on or around May 27. Since that time, there has been no further contact.

How is this possible she was found dead on May 23 but texted her boyfriend on May 27?

 

[mlhenn]

How is this possible she was found dead on May 23 but texted her boyfriend on May 27?

Village of Palatine

Not really sure honestly. The link above is where that particular info was found.

 

[oceanverde]

Someone possibly could have had her phone and texted her bf.